Esoteric Meandering Shouting Into the Void

Dwain Northey (Gen X)

https://nypost.com/2023/04/04/kid-rock-shoots-bud-lights-amid-anger-over-trans-campaign/

The ridiculous right has a new target in their jehad on the “Woke” and its one that is responsible for 80% of their children. Yes, I am talking about Anheuser-Busch. Kid Rock aka Robert James Ritchie and entitled white kid from Romeo Michigan shot up cases of Bud Light because the Anheuser-Busch corporation had the audacity to celebrate and trans person on their product.

This counts in the myriad of ludicrous stunts that the right routinely perform. These idiots, in protest to buy cases of the product they are mad at just so they can blow it up or shoot at it. Good job, I suppose the fact that Anheuser-Busch Corp could care less what they do with the product after they buy it. So, congratulations on buying something and destroying it, the company still got your money. They also seem oblivious that the statistics show the global market share of the leading companies in 2021, based on volume sales. In 2021, Anheuser-Busch InBev had the largest beer market share in the world, controlling nearly one third of beer volume sales.

https://time.com/5390884/nike-sales-go-up-kaepernick-ad/

Here is another example of how the outrage machine nearly always shoots themselves in the foot. When these same clowns protested Collin Kaepernick’s Nike commercial they went out and bought the products to film themselves, destroying them while increasing Nike sales by 61%. Good job you definitely showed Nike who’s boss.

So, I have an idea…hear me out. Let’s start a Go Fund Me and have an ad with Drag Queens and Trans persons shooting all manner of guns, handguns, assault style rifles, you name it we’ll put it in the ad. By the reasoning they have displayed in the past these mental giants will summarily get rid of and or destroy their firearms… just make a commercial about the “Woke” shotting guns. This level of reverse psychology works on children and historically seems to work on the rattle headed right.

So who’s with me… Drag Queen Story Time and Gun Show the right will shut that down faster than shit.

Dwain Northey (Gen X)

Most movable feasts and at least a dozen other important Holidays that takes place before and after Easter — including Shrovetide, Lent, Holy Week, the Ascension, Whit Sunday, Holy Trinity — are all fixed according to the date set for Easter.

Easter and Passover fall on the same weekend more often than not, but the two only coincide with the Islamic holy month of Ramadan about once every 30 years.

Bede, who was one of the greatest teachers and writers of the Early Middle Ages and is considered by many historians to be the most important scholar of antiquity for the period between the death of Pope Gregory I in 604 and the coronation of Charlemagne in 800, the month of April was called Eosturmonath, or Eostre Month, after the goddess Eostre. He wrote that a pagan festival of spring in the name of the goddess had become assimilated into the Christian celebration of the resurrection of Christ.

The tale is that Ostara, the ancient Germanic goddess of the spring, transformed a bird into a hare, and the hare responded by laying colored eggs for her festival. Some online sources, such as Goddess Gift, claim this story is very old indeed.

Is it a coincidence that all these festivals and holidays all fall around the same time? I go back to a saying that coincidence takes a whole lot of planning and coordination. Most if not all the “Christian” holidays coincide with a pagan festival that is not a coincidence its more likely coopting or in modern terms rebranding.

My other big question about Easter is that according to biblical text the crucifixion was on a Friday during the holy week of Passover and the resurrection was the Sunday following. By my logic that give us a definitive date for the resurrection, which is the entire event that Christianity is based on. Here is my dilemma, Easter, which there is more evidence of a date, is a floating holiday that could range from the end of March to the middle of April. Christmas is asset date, December 25^th, supposed to be the birth of Jesus but there is no refence to the actual day anywhere in biblical text.

I ask myself these questions then remember that Christianity is an opportunistic faith that rebrands other ancient celebrations to suit their narrative.

Last thing the commercialization of Easter is based on the Pagan fertility spring festival. Did you ever wonder what in the world eggs, chicks. rabbits, and chocolate have to do with any bible story. Well, they don’t… best as I can surmise is eggs and chicks are new life, we all know what rabbits are famous for, and its not racing turtles, and chocolate is an aphrodisiac that make one what to act like the infamous rabbit.

So Happy Spring Everyone 😊

Dwain Northey (Gen X)

I was going talk about this yesterday but the Tennessee thing had me worked up, then I thought I will just leave this alone but like a scab I have to pick at it.

I for years have been confused as to why in the world in the Christian community that the Friday prior to Easter (whole other topic for tomorrow) is call Good Friday. I have read the Bible and I watched Mel Gibson “Passion” movie for the character that the day is about it was a terrible day. Can you imagine Christ coming back and seeing people worshiping the instrument of his mortal demise. I would think that would be very triggering and would not have warm fuzzy memories.

I know that is non-Christian way to think about it but that’s how my brain works. I am sure that JFK wouldn’t want to see a convertible if he came back and pretty sure Lincoln would not be a big fan of the theater.

Why did Christianity choose a Roman torture device as their symbol? What is more confounding is that the Catholic Church used the same symbol they bowed before to persecute, torture, and execute heretics. The Templars, who were reportedly Knights for Christ, were tortured and burned on the very crosses that the church revered.  

The Star of David at least has some rational it can symbolize the connection between God, Israel, and the Torah. It can also symbolize the relationship between God and people or the seven virtues (kindness, severity, harmony, perseverance, splendor, foundation, and royalty). The Star of David has seven compartments. Another small thing about the Star of David is it was never or has ever been a torture device.

I know man and differing communities choose symbols, banners you name it but the cross just seems like a lazy solution if it is to represent something that’s intended purpose was painful death.

Dwain Northey (Gen X)

https://apnews.com/article/tennessee-lawmakers-expulsion-d3f40559c56a051eec49e416a7b5dade

Thank you, Tennessee Republicans, for showing us just who you are, you pulled the hood back and revealed your true selves and now the world knows.

You ejected two elected democrats for exercising their 1^st amendment right and disenfranchising nearly 140,000 Tennesseans who now have no voice in your state government. It goes unsaid that the 2 districts they represent d52 and d86 are predominately minority and democratic party leaning.

Their offense was joining protesters who gathered in Nashville last week to call for gun safety reform in the aftermath of a deadly school shooting that left seven dead, including the shooter. The members approached the lectern without being called on by House GOP leadership and toted a bullhorn to lead chants on the House floor, a stunt that temporarily suspended legislative business.

My questions is was that their real offence in the eyes of Tennessee Republicans? I believe that in that chamber their first offence was being Black, second young, third being a Democrat. Their willingness to stand up with their constituents was the final straw.

So now we know than in Tennessee a gun has more rights than children, democratically elected member if their house, black men, and common sense. These republicans would rather that children attended class in what would be equivalent to a prison before enacting any kind of gun reform.

I hope the two ejected representatives run for the seats that they were just ousted from and win them back with huge majorities. I hope that the republicans, now having shown their hand, are voted out of office best yet their districts petition and recall to have then removed. I want KARMA to kick them so hard that even their own children won’t vote for them.

Dwain Northey (Gen X)

There is a post going around on Facebook and Instagram the many believe is the way we should view things today. The post is of the back of a SUV with “In this country we don’t redistribute wealth… we earn it!!”

It is crazy that the person that has this on the back of their vehicle most likely works for someone or a corporation that pays them fall less than the value they bring to the business. The owner of the business or CEO of the corporation has effectively redistributed that individuals time and energy into profit for the benefit of the business.

Every work a day person that punches a time clock is making someone else wealthy from their effort. Do you think a CEO or large business owner punches a time clock? No they don’t they work when they choose to work because the effort of their employees has afforded them that privilege. Those same people are the ones that say that the wealthy paying their fare share of taxes is somehow a redistribution of wealth. Them not paying is absolutely a redistribution from your pocket to theirs, and that’s the way they want to keep it.

Warren Buffet once said that it isn’t appropriate that as a percentage, he pays less in taxes than his secretary. He stated that the wealthy should have to pay more because as a whole they use more of the commons, roads, airways, other services than those earning less. Why should the person or corporation that has a fleet of vehicles, commercial or otherwise, pay the same or less than person who only has one car or uses public transportation. This argument seems logical to some but many that have much more than others feel that they are somehow entitled to not sharing the burden.  

The people that have money are the ones that say, “Money can’t buy happiness”, and, “If you love what you do it isn’t work.” Maybe money can’t buy happiness but scarcity of it can surely by misery, and I don’t know anyone that works for someone else the loves what they do. Unfortunately, the system makes it really hard for a individual that does not start out with the means to start something they enjoy that is profitable.

The ultra wealthy aren’t breaking any laws by paying less in taxes it is an unfortunate flaw in the way tax code is written. When the government writes that tax code the mega rich and corporations have lobbyist petitioning their representatives to keep their taxes low with false promises that if they have the money they will reinvest in the communities. Well Ronald Reagan introduced trickle down (supply side) economics back in the 80s…how has that worked out for everyone. It worked out great for the top 1% because they are richer than ever while the wealth gap has increased. That is a pure example of wealth redistribution, from the bottom to the top.

Over the past four decades, average household income grew by 68 percent after adjusting for inflation; however, that growth wasn’t shared equally. Average income in the highest one-fifth of the population was 114 percent higher in 2019 than it was in 1979 – almost two and a half times the growth in average income in the lowest households.

The richest 1% grabbed nearly two-thirds of all new wealth worth $42 trillion created since 2020, almost twice as much money as the bottom 99 percent of the world’s population. During the past decade, the richest 1 percent had captured around half of all new wealth.

So please get off your soapbox spouting that there isn’t wealth redistribution in this country because you, the guy in the SUV, are giving it willingly to the top 1% and you are perpetuating the lie that they want you to believe.

Dwain Northey (Gen X)

Ok let’s put all the cards on the table…

Democrats:

Yes, Bill Clinton got a consensual BJ and subsequently lied about it.

Anthony Weiner was caught sexting a 21 years old and resigned his seat.

Al Franken resigned from the Senate over a photo taken when he was a comedian mocking groping an asleep woman…never actually touched her.

No children involved in any of these encounters.

Republicans:

During and after the 2016 presidential race, among the dozens of women who accused former president Donald Trump of being a sexual predator were several contestants in the 1997 Miss Teen USA pageant, who reported that he barged into their dressing room while girls as young as 15 were changing. (Trump allegedly told them, “Don’t worry, ladies, I’ve seen it all before.”)

Anton “Tony” Lazzaro is charged with seven counts involving “commercial sex acts” with five minors ages 15 and 16 in 2020, when he was 30 years old. His indictment touched off a political firestorm that led to the downfall of Jennifer Carnahan as chair of the Republican Party of Minnesota.

Ohio representative and former Ohio State University wrestling coach Jim Jordan aided and abetted in the university’s cover-up of sexual abuse within the program, a former team captain said in front of Ohio state legislators on Wednesday. 

2006, Florida Rep. Mark Foley was forced to resign after it was revealed that he’d sent sexually explicit messages and propositioned teenage congressional pages via email and text.

2015, former Rep. Dennis Hastert, the longest-ever serving Republican speaker of the House, pleaded guilty to making illegal hush-money payments in order to cover up his history of sexually abusing high school wrestlers he had coached decades before.

During the 2018 midterms, Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore was accused of preying on girls as young as 14 and 16; the New Yorker reported that his habit of trying to pick up high schoolers was so notorious that it actually got him banned from a local mall.

And finally, Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida is currently the subject of a literal sex-trafficking investigation, which is looking into whether he had sex with an underage 17-year-old girl, among other issues. (Greene is close with Gaetz, who denies the allegations, and has defended him.)

I am seeing a pattern and it is not in the Democratic party it does seem that this a case of projection.

The Qinon trope that Democrats some how kill and eat babies, that Hillary Clinton was trafficking children from the basement of Rocket Pizza in DC (which btw has no basement),that we are grooming children and the big one that Democrats are for mutilation of underaged children that are gender confused. Oh yeah and that we are for abortion even after the infant is live born. Did I get them all, I am sure there are more but there all bull shit so I will stop listing them.

Big question is why, other than Bill Clinton, when a democrat is accused, they ultimately resign from their elected position. On the other hand republicans dig in their heals, even with abundant evidence so substantiate the charges against them, lie and then run for office again. The larger conundrum is how they get reelected… the conservative, Christian party only seems to have issues if the person in question has a (D) in their title otherwise its all just “Oh well, boys will be boys.”

The republican will fall in line no matter the immorality of their candidate and democrats have a purity test than can take down even the best….SAD     

Dwain Northey (Gen X)

https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2979989563990-trump-pleads-not-guilty-to-34-criminal-charges-in-new-york

When do we get to ignore the malignant tumor in his ill-fitting suit? I am seriously asking; I am tired of wall-to-wall coverage of this national disgrace. Earlier was coverage that of Trump Force One leaving Florida and arriving in New York so that the first ever indited former President could surrender to Manhattan District Court.

The tumor was offered the ability to be arraigned via zoom but not one to turn down a spectacle for his ego and minions, he begrudgingly went to NYC so that his martyrdom was on full display. No surprise that his plea was, “Not Guilty”, I am sure there were a lot more words vomited on the court but I wasn’t there so I can only speculate.  

Donny dumb ass could have lived out his miserable life in anonymity if his inflated ego hadn’t miraculously gotten him placed, I am not going to imply he was lawfully elected. He could have continued crimeing and gone relatively unchecked but he got himself, with foreign assistance, into a position that put his woeful life under a microscope.

He fits the mold of a criminal is going to crime no matter the position they are in, that is their nature and they can’t help themselves. The comparison to Nixon is that Nixon was a President that became a criminal, but Trump was a criminal that became President.

Now the GOP is crying that we have 2 systems of justice in this country and Trump is innocent. For the first time ever I agree with them, we do have 2 systems, ask George Floyd, Breana Taylor, Tyre Nichols, I could continue this for pages but they unfortunate individuals are examples of our 2 systems of justice. Donald is finally being brought up on charges that were from 2016 and before, that’s 6 years the 3 I named had minutes, George Floyd had 19 minutes not 6 years. I want equal justice for all and I am sure the many that have been executed by police or railroaded into prison would have liked the amount of time and diligence that Trump and his fellow white collar criminals have gotten.

That is a big part of this but more to the point is I want all the attention that the mango tumor is getting to disappear. I want his name to be pox in the history books, his name should have the same connotation as Benedict Arnold. I know I am dreaming because this inditement will be headline new for days and when George indites him it will start again and then when Jack Smith drops the hammer… well who knows by them we all may be so exhausted that we aren’t even paying attention.

What is really sad and dispiriting is that the GOP will more than likely nominate him to run for the office he actively tried to dismantle in 2024. The party of Lincoln is dead the party that praises autocracy and dictatorship has replaced it masquerading as populist.

Sinclair Lewis has been attributed to saying, “When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross”

It looks like an Orange Buffoon will try to be the one who make that line come true.

Dwain Northey (Gen X)

BULLET POINTS: “DeathSantis” makes it even easier to carry concealed weapons in Florida

I feel like I am banging my head against the wall complaining about guns. The article linked is reference the to Ron (Death Sentence) DeSantis quietly signing into Florida law a bill that actually makes it easier for conceal carry in his State.

This death merchant wants to be President and thinks that the glory days of the wild, wild west should be the marker of the 21^st century. Ron is as delusional as the rest of the wanna-be gun slingers not recognizing that the old west while riddled with shoot out lore had gun laws. Most western towns banned guns in the city limits and usually, if not always in saloons.

Florida already has a ridiculous stand your ground law that gives anyone (we all know anyone means white person) the right to shoot first and ask questions later if they feel at all threatened. Ask Trayvon Martin how that law works, oh yeah you can’t because he didn’t live to see 18 because Andrew Zimmer felt threatened by Trayvon’s hoodie and shot him.

Stoneman Douglas High School in the Miami tragedy of February 14, 2018 may just be another normal day in Sunny Florida because now anyone can get a gun and conceal it. Yes there is still a waiting period if you buy from an authorized dealer but not from trade shows or online purchases. Trayvon Martins death will be followed by many more because the combination of Stand your ground and Conceal Carry can only end with more killing.  

DeSantis has tried to take control of Disney in Orlando but the was outsmarted by the popular tourist destination. Will he try to make a private company allow concealed weapons in their parks. I am sure that his authoritarian nature would truly love to impose that rule on a private corporation but fortunately, at least for now, there are laws to prevent that.

As of Feb. 23, there have been seven mass shootings in Florida in 2023.

• Jan. 1, Miami Gardens: Nine people were shot or grazed in a shooting at a New Year’s Eve party. A 2-year-old was hit in the foot and a boy was shot in the knee, according to NBC6.
• Jan. 1, Ocala: Two men were killed and four others were injured in a shooting early New Year’s Day in a large gathering of people in Ocala, police reported.
• Jan. 5, Miami Gardens: As many as 10 people were wounded in a shooting outside The Licking, a soul food restaurant.
• Jan. 15, Homestead: Four people in their 20s were shot in Homestead, according to Miami-Dade police. One man, 24, died from his injuries.
• Jan. 16, Fort Pierce: Eight people were shot during an MLK Day celebration at a Fort Pierce park. One victim died the next morning.
• Jan. 30, Lakeland: Eleven people were shot, leaving two of them in critical condition in a drive-by shooting in Lakeland’s midtown.
• Feb. 22, Pine Hills: A gunman opened fire on a TV news crew reporting on a fatal shooting earlier in the day, before walking to a nearby home and shooting woman and her daughter.

Is anyone delusional enough to believe that letting anyone conceal carry will make these numbers go down. This is just mass shootings I am not even reporting individual incidents of gun homicide or suicide.

This mass hysteria and deification of guns and gun culture has to end. We live through 4 years of a Psychopathic Narcissist Moron, we won’t survive a Authoritarian, Napoleonic DeSantis who knows how to manipulate the system.

Dwain Northey (Gen X)

This should have been yesterdays post but my head was in a different place, but I couldn’t pass up another opportunity to explore the origin of another silly day and its traditions that continue to live on.

I will attribute most of this information to the History Channels site:

April Fools’ Day—occurring on April 1 each year—has been celebrated for several centuries by different cultures, though its exact origins remain a mystery. April Fools’ Day traditions include playing hoaxes or practical jokes on others, often yelling “April Fools!” at the end to clue in the subject of the April Fools’ Day prank. While its exact history is shrouded in mystery, the embrace of April Fools’ Day jokes by the media and major brands has ensured the unofficial holiday’s long life.

Some historians speculate that April Fools’ Day dates back to 1582, when France switched from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar, as called for by the Council of Trent in 1563. In the Julian Calendar, as in the Hindu calendar, the new year began with the spring equinox around April 1.

Historians have also linked April Fools’ Day to festivals such as Hilaria, which was celebrated in ancient Rome at the end of March. It involved people dressing up in disguises and mocking fellow citizens.

There’s also speculation that April Fools’ Day was tied to the vernal equinox, or first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere, when Mother Nature fooled people with changing, unpredictable weather. This is a hypothesis that I tend to agree with, Mother Nature is moody this time of year.

April Fools’ Day spread throughout Britain during the 18th century. In Scotland, the tradition became a two-day event, starting with “hunting the gowk,” in which people were sent on phony errands (gowk is a word for cuckoo bird, a symbol for fool) and followed by Tailie Day, which involved pranks played on people’s backsides, such as pinning fake tails or “kick me” signs on them.

This strange tradition continues today with children playing prank on their parent, that they believe that they were the first ones to every think of such foolishness. There are even more malicious pranks were individuals make prank 911 calls but those are far less frequent with calls being readily identified via technology. Announcers regularly read false stories on radio shows that I presume fool some listeners. It is a day that begins the departure for the winter doldrums and starts the beginning of Spring and the closing out of another school year.

Hello spring let the season of heightened allergies begin.   

Dwain Northey (Gen X)

Some would argue that man isn’t the only animal that kills its own species. Meerkats and Dolphins have been known to take the life of their own kind for no discernable reason. Man on the other hand has a history of wholesale genocide of its own kind. We slaughter each other for land and riches but we also kill just to kill, for the simple sport of extinguishing another life.

I argue that as we species man is psychopathic in it need to kill. I completely understand the reasoning of animals being hunted for nourishment since we are omnivores that require vegetable and animal nutrients. Man is the only animal the kills for trophies, kills for the sport of killing. No other animal that I am aware of has serial killers, that hunt and kill their own kind just because they have some sense of entitlement that their existence is more valuable than that of the one or many that they deem disposable.

We are psychopathic in our turn any technology into a means of controlling or killing each other. First man had clubs and its presumable that those first men killed each other with those blunt objects that were intended to use for hunting and providing for the tribe. Next step in evolution was the discovery of flint blades a valuable tool but also an implement of killing. The advancement of simple tools has always turned into those instruments being turned into ways to kill something or someone. Blades became swords, arrows became spears (or maybe that was the other way around), fire was turned into a chemical reaction that became gunpowder and we all know where that went. The advent of atomic energy wasn’t to provide clean power to the masses it was harnessed to kill masses.

When will our homicidal nature cease? We dream of traveling beyond this planet but in the front of our minds presume that we will encounter another race we may have to extinguish. We assume that just because we are a waring genocidal race that all other must be the same.

Damn this is dark, so I will end this with lets use our eminence power of reason the move forward, stop designing new ways to kill each other, use that same intellect as a species to make this world one that is for everyone and everything.